Inside the NSAâs Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators

Source: First Look - Posted byDave Wreski

Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order â and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the National Security Agency for simply doing their jobs.
According to a secret document provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the agency tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks they control.